For the past 2 days, we've heard persistent rumours that Gary Gentle, the co-owner of Anchor Security, was fatally injured in an armed robbery in Mexico on Monday night. Well, tonight 7News has confirmed that Gentle is alive and well, if only a bit shaken up by a scary situation.
We contacted Gentle's wife and business partner who told us that her information is very sketchy, but she knows that he left for Houston and spent a week there, where he purchased a vehicle which he planned to use to drive back down to Belize.
But things didn't go according to plan because when he, along with a caravan of 8 other businessmen, arrived at the US/Mexico border they were attacked on the Mexican side.
It happened at around 10:30 p.m. where several armed gunmen ambushed them in the Matamores area and opened fire on the caravan.
Gentle's wife told us that she doesn't know if he was injured in the attack because she has only had very brief contact with him, and he didn't want to get into the details over the phone.
She told us that he remains in Mexico tonight while an investigation into the matter is being conducted by Mexican authorities.
This attack becomes the second known incident for this year; viewers may remember Hyram Longsworth, who recounted to us the scary experience he had when he was robbed at gunpoint of $50,000 in cash and goods.
He also warned about the dangers of travelling the Matamoros area of Mexico.
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